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TOP50 CONTRACTORS BY OPERATING MARGIN

Ranking by operating margin % Ranking by operating margin %

2009 2008 (pre-exceptional) (pre-exceptional)

1 1 Severfield-Rowen 14.0 26 – Keltbray 4.3 2 4 Watkin Jones 11.9 27 36 Higgins Group 4.3 3 15 Keepmoat 10.4 28 28 Wates Group 4.2 4 3 Keller 10.0 29 – Killby & Gayford 4.1 5 5 Henry Boot 9.6 30 – Rowecord Holdings 4.0 6 – RJ McLeod6 9.2 31 38 Michael J Lonsdale 4.0 7 6 Apollo Property Services Group 8.7 32 30 May Gurney 4.0 8 10 Dawn Group 8.6 33 44 Laing O’Rourke ## 4.0 9 9 Southern Electric Contracting 8.0 34 37 Simons ## 3.7 10 – EIC 7.7 35 67 Robertson Group 3.7 11 8 Esh Group ## 7.6 36 35 Bowmer & Kirkland ## 3.7 12 11 Rydon Group 7.2 37 45 BAM Construct UK 3.5 13 – J Reddington4 6.8 38 40 RG Carter Group ## 3.5 14 13 Muir Group 6.8 39 43 Byrne ## 3.5 15 14 PC Harrington ## 6.5 40 73 Newarthill 3.4 16 23 GMI Construction 6.5 41 41 Multiplex Construction UK/Brookfield 3.4 17 22 Biwater 6.2 42 – McLaren Construction 3.3 18 29 T Clarke 5.6 43 19 Seddon ## 3.3 19 32 William Hare Group 5.5 44 54 BAM Nuttall 3.1 20 12 Carey Group ## 5.4 45 59 Roger Bullivant 3.1 21 31 Interserve 5.2 46 42 Leadbitter 2.9 22 18 Imtech Technical Services 4.8 47 26 Ogilvie Group ## 2.9 23 21 Durkan Holdings ## 4.7 48 16 Headcrown Group ## 2.7 24 33 Forth Holdings 4.6 49 50 Balfour Beatty ## 2.6 25 20 Shepherd Building Group ## 4.5 50 – Lindum Group ## 2.6

TOP25 CONTRACTORS IN FACILITIES MANAGEMENT BY TURNOVER 8

Company FM turnover Operating Operating Activities included in turnover figures £000 profit £000 margin % 2009 2008 1 1 Carillion 2,463,500 113,500 4.6 Building maintenance, road/rail maintenance, support services, utility services 2 4 Babcock 1,555,900 121,100 7.8 Rail, telecoms, defence, energy, waste 3 3 Mitie 1,407,200 70,300 5.0 Engineering, property, and facilities services 4 2 Amey UK 1,313,991 87,524 6.7 Business services, infrastructure maintenance, building maintenance 5 6 Enterprise 1,090,200 71,800 6.6 Utility services, local authority maintenance 6 5 Interserve 961,500 33,800 3.5 Facilities management, support services, building maintenance 7 7 Balfour Beatty ### 643,000 na na Road/rail maintenance, building services, facilities management 8 8 Homeserve 554,875 77,489 14.0 Home emergency repair business 9 10 Connaught 552,900 35900 6.5 Public housing maintenance, gas services, compliance 10 12 Dalkia 518,193 15,207 2.9 Building services, facilities management, energy management 11 9 Morrison Utility Services 492,645 13,316 2.7 Infrastructure/utility maintenance 12 13 J Murphy & Sons 475,972 55,334 11.6 Road maintenance, utilities, rail, small new works contracts 13 14 Rok 447,600 24,200 5.4 Building maintenance and repair 14 11 Ringway 404,172 1,738 0.4 Roads maintenance and associated works 15 15 Kier 393,700 13,500 3.4 Building maintenance, FM, M&E services, street services, plant 16 18 Mears Group 360,054 19,162 5.3 Social housing maintenance, M&E 17 – Spice Group 312,183 24,635 7.9 Utility maintenance and services 18 17 Skanska Construction ### 300,000 na na Utility maintenance, includes McNicholas acquisition 19 19 May Gurney 291,600 11,700 4.0 Utility and highway maintenance, street lighting, waste services 20 20 Clancy Group 235,734 4,171 1.8 Utility/civils maintenance 21 16 Jarvis 233,400 12,600 5.4 Rail maintenance, accommodation services/building FM 22 22 GSH Group 200,434 11,275 5.6 Building FM, M&E, energy management 23 – Colas 182,814 5,605 3.1 Road maintenance 24 24 Bullock Construction 180,706 6,145 3.4 Social housing maintenance 25 23 Integral UK 180,018 8,967 5.0 Building maintenance, across all sectors and disciplines Methodology on page 49

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